ectomorph
English
Etymology
Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛktoʊmɔːɹf/, /ˈɛktəmɔːɹf/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
ectomorph (plural ectomorphs)
- Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
- 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
- Also there was a woman I hadn't met, a chain-smoking French ectomorph whose job it was to make sense of records of public spending in the Ministry of Finance.
- 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
- (bodybuilding): Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ectomorphic_somatotype.jpg/220px-Ectomorphic_somatotype.jpg)
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Translations
someone with a lean body
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